riday. March 25, 1983
Charges vendetta
The Jewish Floridian of Tampa
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AIPAC Official Takes Out After Weinberger
Continued from Page 1
Iht- President's mind, Rosen
fcharged at the press conference
vhich was called to discuss
lIPAC's new pamphlet, "Israel
and the U.S. Air Force."
The pamphlet argues that Is-
rael, not any of the Arab coun-
tries, is the best site for American
air bases, particularly to provide
refueling and maintenance of
J.S. planes protecting the Mid-
Idle East and the Persian Gulf.
IThe pamphlet is a follow-up to
(one issued by AIPAC last year
(called "The Strategic Value of Is-
Irael."
Rosen's press conference was
| held coinciden tally at just about
the time the Defense Department
was releasing a letter from Gen.
I Robert Barrow, the Commandant
<>f the U.S. Marine Corps, to
[Weinberger, charging that Israeli
troops are deliberately threaten-
ing the lives of American military
personnel in Lebanon for "po-
litical purposes" and urging that
"firm and strong action" be
taken by the U.S. to end the con-
[ frontations.
Rosen asserted that there is no
I official in the Administration at a
\ high level with a sympathetic
view toward Israel since the de-
partures last year of Secretary of
State Alexander Haig and Na-
tional Security Adviser Richard
Alien.
THE AIPAC official said the
only "good things" that have
emerged recently are such items
as foreign aid which is directed
by Congress. He claimed that
even the Administration's op-
position to attempts to expel Is-
rael from the United Nations was
due to the mandate by Congress.
Rosen said the only weapons
shipped to Israel in recent
months have been 11 F-15 jets
and 200 Sidewinder missiles. He
said the Administration has held
up since last May official
notification to Congress of the
sale of 75 F-16 jets even though
they, like the F-15s, were
promised to Israel in 1978 as a re-
sult of the weapons the U.S. sold
to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and
Jordan.
As for Weinberger's policy
toward the Arabs, it is "come
pick what you want, and it's
yours," Rosen said. He said it
was "not clear what the Arabs
wanted that he (Weinberger)
turned down."
Rosen said AIPAC is speaking
out because there has been an
"obsession" over the last two
years over what Israel has done
to strain relations with the U.S.,
but little has been mentioned
about what Weinberger has done
to strain relations with Israel. He
contended that Weinberger does
not know the importance of Israel
to U.S. security and has thus
harmed American security.
IN ADDITION, Rosen
warned, his anti-Israel policies
Ex-Nazis Said to Lead Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial Apr. 19
Continued from Page 1
after the Six-Day War and Moc-
xar'a faction within the Commu-
nist Party took up the govern-
ment's cry that Polish Jews are
the fifth column" and expanded
u to create an atmosphere during
which thousands of Jews who
had returned to Poland after
World War II began a mass
exodus, Kugler said.
Assaults and harassments at
the lime were "part of the Polish
government'a anti-Semitic mani-
pulation of its remaining small
Jewish community," Kugler
stated. He said that some Ameri-
say Kaddish, which they can do
at any time and should but
not dictated by those whose
records are stained by the blood
"I Jews victimized in pogroms or
by those responsible for perpe-
tuating a history saturated with
i lie blood of Jewish martyrs and
other victims.
"We totally support and hail
the statement by Marek Edel-
man, the last commander of the
commander of the Warsaw
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Rosen stressed that there was
an ignorance of Israel's strategic
value in the Defense Department
because the Pentagon has not
studied it. He said that before
1979, the Pentagon concentrated
on Europe and the Far East. But
with the fall of the Shah of Iran
and the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan, large numbers of
military men were sent to the
Middle East to study the situa-
tion there.
He said this resulted in a
"search for ways to cooperate
closely with the Arabs" because
there was a need to obtain
"access arrangements" for bases
in Arab countries. "A concept
evolved very sensitive to the
strategic value of a number of
Arab countries and surprisingly
insensitive to the strategic value
of Israel to the U.S.," Rosen said.
He charged that Defense Depart-
ment officials are even warned
against studying the strategic
value of Israel.
Rosen noted that Weinberger
had blocked the agreement upon
which Israel would supply the
U.S. with information that it
learned about Soviet weapons as
a result of the war in Lebanon as
it had done after previous wars.
He said the Secretary did not un-
derstand the complicated and
long procedure needed to analyze
these weapons.
THE AIPAC official also
charged that Weinberger was re-
sopnsible for the position being
taken by some that Israel's des-
truction of Soviet-built Syrian
missiles in Lebanon benefitted
the USSR because the Russians
would now improve their missile
defenses. He said the Israelis
could now take out the SAM-5
missiles that the Soviets have in-
stalled in Syria. But the difficulty
there is diplomatic, since the mis-
siles are manned by Soviet tech-
nicians, he said.
Several hours after the con-
ference, AIPAC issued a state-
ment through its spokesperson,
Lisa Behren, that "any personal
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"solely" that of Rosen's.
She said that AICPAC's well-
known differences with the Ad-
ministration are that it believes
that "Israel is of strategic im-
portance to the U.S., and current
U.S. policy does not take advan-
tage of that fact. It will be false
to characterize this difference of
opinion as personal criticism of
the motives of the Secretary of
Defense. Our concern remains
what it has always been 
policy, not personality."
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